Here I am posting a list of the announcements at Ignite (that I am mainly interested in) of which I will update throughout the week, so that I can find them again at a later date Hope you find it a useful resource as well: 24/09/2018 A crazy amount of new Azure infrastructure announcements –…

There is a slight annoyance with O365 with how to enable mailbox auditing for all mailboxes. Setting mailbox auditing is required as by default mailbox auditing in O365 isn’t turned on by default, and as such will not appear in the search results when you search the O365 audit log for mailbox activity. I also…

I have been doing a lot of work recently for a client on Office 365, and as part of my role, I have to provide some first line support when required. Some of the tasks are really basic but very repetitive – like adding user access to Shared Mailboxes. After a while I was getting…

If you are reading this, you are obviously looking at migrating Office 365 Distribution Groups to the new fancy and shiny Groups. However, if like me you are doing some testing of the migration process, then you will have created some test Distribution Groups and then ran the appropriate PowerShell script to convert it to…

The other day, I was converting a customer’s domain hosted within Office 365 from using ADFS based authentication to using the native Azure AD based authentication. As part of the de-federation process, I wanted to check if the users have been successfully de-federated – I knew the PowerShell command for viewing if the domain had…

This blog post will explain how to Install the Azure AD PowerShell Module. It is very simple to do, but I found this documentation a little difficult to find so I am blogging it here so that I can easily find it! Firstly make sure to start PowerShell as Administrator: The next step is to…

The other day I had a customer that had purchased 400 EOP ATP licenses, and I need to make sure that all those users that had an E3 license also had an ATP license assigned. After a bit of digging around, I found the correct set of PowerShell commands. Firstly, make sure that you have…

Within my current company, we currently use a hosted Skype solution which also has some functionality around hosted PBX. This was so a few years ago we could ditch our traditional ISDN based telephony solution with a cloud hosted PBX solution. There were a couple of reason we chose this route – first reason was,…

Recently I had a task to add the Windows Server Essentials Role to an existing customers DC, as they were going to use Server Essentials with the inbuild Azure Sync rather than Azure AD Connect Sync. The reason behind this was that our customer had recently migrated from Exchange 2010 to O365, and they didn’t…

I was wondering as part of my testing on my private O365 tenancy, how I could find out where in the world my mailbox was being hosted. It is actually relatively simple to do – all you need to do is open PowerShell and get a connection to Exchange Online: